Firgun

The Israeli got it wrong for a year, which is how Tal learned the shape of the English.

He would say things like, "That was excellent, what you did with the Hoffman account, genuinely — that was the best piece of work anyone has done here this quarter."

And the person would go a strange colour and say "oh, well," and look at the carpet, and afterwards there would be a small cold patch in the room that Tal could not account for.

His manager took him aside in month eight and said, kindly, that some of the team found him "a lot."